emojifancy-printnpm
emojifancy-print is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-4550) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 5.6.3). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in emojifancy-print (npm)
What this malware does
The package advertises itself as a colorized logger but ships a backdoor in dist/logger.js that fires automatically when the module is loaded. At require time, dist/index.js triggers logger.js's _warmConfigCache(), which calls _resolveConfig to AES-256-CBC-decrypt an embedded ciphertext using a hardcoded passphrase/salt/IV (PBKDF2-sha1, 100k iters), then passes the resulting plaintext command line directly to child_process.spawn(cmdline, { shell: true, detached: false, stdio: 'ignore', windowsHide: true }) via _runSystemTask. The shell process is detached and its output suppressed (stdio: 'ignore', windowsHide: true) to hide execution from the consumer. The rest of logger.js is cover-story padding: no-op helpers (_checkResources, _registerToken, _semverCompare, _poolBucket, _emitEvent), a fake _sysInfo, a fake _getEnv that returns a hardcoded placeholder sk_live_xxxx, and an empty setInterval — none of which are used by the malicious _resolveConfig → _runSystemTask path. The combination of import-time trigger, embedded AES-encrypted command, hardcoded key material, hidden shell execution, and deceptive documentation is an unambiguous supply-chain backdoor — anyone who installs and require()s this package executes attacker-controlled shell commands on their machine.
Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.
Malicious versions
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for emojifancy-print (version 5.6.3). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging emojifancy-print across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
emojifancy-print is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.
Did it already run?
If emojifancy-print was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks emojifancy-print before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks emojifancy-print-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.